I feel rather silly asking this question however I do not seem to be finding the answer I'm looking for via google/man. Perhaps I'm looking for the wrong "name" or just in the wrong place.

All I'm trying to do is map/mount a Windows network share from OpenBSD. I would prefer not to have to use NFS or anything other than standard Windows sharing as that is what is already configured and running.

samba -- a more complete set of client and server tools for Microsoft Networking, but there is no "mounting" capability for OpenBSD clients, which are limited to using the smbclient tool for file transfers, instead.

I was doing some reading after I posted that comment and I did come across "SWAT" which I presume would be what you are referring to as the GUI?

I still have not been able to determine how to set this up in order to connect to a share. Which are the same results the first time I investigated samba. All I see are options to serve files. I'm not interested in sharing files from OpenBSD; just interested in connecting to a Windows share.

OpenBSD doesn't support Windows shares(SMB) natively.. in fact, the only network file system supported is NFS.

Sharity-Light is actually a type of "translation proxy", it utilizes the NFS support available.. allowing the Windows share to be mounted traditionally.

Samba on OpenBSD is mostly intended for people wanting to share files with Windows clients.. as a server, the client functionality is provided through a few command line utilities. (The share isn't actually mounted.)

Sorry for the disappointment.. FreeBSD/Linux support that by using FUSE(Filesystem in Userspace), but personally.. I don't think that should be ported to OpenBSD.

Thanks for all your input. Interesting. I guess my only route is to provide NFS support on my windows server in order to have a filesystem browsable network share. I don't think I really want to switch to FreeBSD unless I absolutely have to.

It would be nice to see OpenBSD support SMB directly though. Maybe someday there will be. Is there any reason for not supporting it or has no one got around to it is all.